I went through this about a month ago. Upgraded from vista to 7, which required a clean install. I can verify the 24+ hour time. Now the damn thing keeps pestering me to upgrade to 10. Is 10 a pig like 7? That damn thing took up 2/3rds of my hard drive. Good thing most of my files are on external drives.

A couple months back there was a free software program offer in the PC Talk forum of this site. I don't remember just what is was but it come up in a window every time I reboot and can get it from that if you want it. It removes all the windows 10 folders and update junk and stops any W10 stuff from coming through. I have not seen the Upgrade to W10 pop up since I put it on. If I remember right it was in one of the articles dealing with Linus (sp).
So far so good.

I went through this about a month ago. Upgraded from vista to 7, which required a clean install. I can verify the 24+ hour time. Now the damn thing keeps pestering me to upgrade to 10. Is 10 a pig like 7? That damn thing took up 2/3rds of my hard drive. Good thing most of my files are on external drives.

10 seems to manage system resources much better than 7 - or so that is my perception of 10 based on the i3/4gb of ram laptop at the church that I upgraded from 7Pro to 10. I am hesitant to upgrade at home as I don't want the headaches. Then again, one much choose the headaches of 7 v/s the headaches of 10.

The shortcut in the article talking about installing SP1 and then manually installing KB3083710 and KB3102810 worked great on the clean install of 7 that I am working on right now. Still time consuming but much less painful than the last time I installed 7 on a machine with the same mobo.

lyall has a good idea. If you have any technical skills get a copy of Clonezilla and once you have Win7 installed and fully updated use Clonezilla to make an image of the HDD then take that image and burn it to a DVD or Thumb drive and put it away. Then all you have to do if something happens is pop the DVD or thumb drive in the drive and burn it to the HDD and you are back at square one. You could also make periodic updated images too. On a side note this would also give you some insurance for Ransomware.

I bit the bullet and did the windows 10 upgrade on a laptop that needed reloaded. It had the cpu running its ass off for no reason. It took a long time due to the fact that I forgot to turn off the hibernate BS. It will be hard to get the hang of. It is nothing like any version before it. I have not messed with it much so far, but just the few things I have tried to do were not as user friendly.